If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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Pema Chödrön is an American Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, and teacher, known for her teachings on mindfulness and compassion. Born on July 14, 1936, she became a prominent figure in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Chödrön has written several influential books, including "When Things Fall Apart" and "The Places That Scare You," which focus on embracing life’s challenges with resilience and openness.
b. 1936
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.
Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.
That’s all 3 quotes by Pema Chodron.